Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The United States military, for the third time, killed suspected drug dealers in a boat in the Caribbean Sea, President Donald Trump said.
The president announced the attack on Truth Social on Friday night, writing that three "male narcoterrorists" were killed in international waters and no U.S. forces were injured. He didn't mention the location of the strike or which gangs, though the first two strikes earlier this month were allegedly from Venezuela. The U.S. Southern Command covers most of South America and the Caribbean.
"On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility," Trump posted. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans."
He added: "STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!"
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